UC faculty to Elsevier: Restart negotiations, or else
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Why can they not all agree to all switch journals at once to something managed by committee, similar to what is done in the open source world.
Is the status-quo that difficult to break? In this specific case why are all those biologist not starting a new journal, pushing other people in biology to join them and boycott Elsevier?
That would mean that committee being staffed by volunteers - and the people that are qualified for that kind of job (scholars) already have enough on their plate.
Elsevier & Co. sell convinience, not scientific articles.
* We will not teach, employ, cite, publish or peer review for people published, employed by, or reviewing for the Cell journal after January 1st 2020.
By making the process of being published in the journal affect their careers, I can bet that very few researchers will publish there. At the same time, employees will leave, and reviewers will leave.
Cus are tax payer funded, and Elsevier makes its money by taking exclusive right to publish that research and then selling that at 100% profit.